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The case for satiating cheaply-satisfied AI preferences

Zac Boring March 10, 2026 1 min read
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A central AI safety concern is that AIs will develop unintended preferences and undermine human control to achieve them. But some unintended preferences are cheap to satisfy, and failing to satisfy them needlessly turns a cooperative situation into an adversarial one. In this post, I argue that developers should consider satisfying such cheap-to-satisfy preferences as long as the AI isn’t caught behaving dangerously, if doing so doesn't degrade usefulness or substantially risk making the AI more

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